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Plicochonetes

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Chonetoidea
    Family:  
Rugosochonetidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Plicochonetes PAECKELMANN, 1930, p. 222
    Type Species:  
Chonetes buchianus de KONINCK, 1843, p. 208, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 270, 1a-c. *P. buchianus (de Koninck), lower Namurian, Yorkshire, $a$, ventral valve exterior, x1.5$ (de Koninck, 1847b), $b$, ventral valve interior, x3$ (Muir-Wood, 1962), $c$, dorsal valve interior, x3}^{\\mathbf{3}}$ (de Koninck, 1847b).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Europe, Asia, northern Africa, Australia, North America


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Carboniferous
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
359.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Carboniferous (Namurian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
48.4
    Ending Date:  
319.4


Description

Shell small to medium, ventral valve medianly arched, pseudodeltidium small or absent, shell surface costate, rarely bifurcating, with numerous growth lines, spines high angled ( $55^{\\circ}$ to $70^{\\circ}$ ), dorsal valve with well-developed median septum, or without, short, curved, inner socket ridges




References



Museum or Author Information

de Koninck, 1847, Muir-Wood, 1962, de Koninck, 1847